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Cereal plantings have continued through the winter and preparation for early pasture renewal is underway. There have been minimal forage crops planted at time of writing and this is a reflection on the previous year when there was little benefit in planting early due to the later spring

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Agrichemical manufacturers back the government’s mandate to take environmental responsibility for their products at the end of their useful life.

In this issue of the Agri-link, we will be looking at what is happening on-farm over the next 3 months regarding agrichemicals. The focus will be on cereals, ryegrass, white clover, and fodder beet.

Taking the term “sustainable” and making it a genuine underpinning goal of a farm operation is far easier said than done. But Canterbury farm company Align Group has built the term into the operation’s very foundations and continues to reinforce what it really means to “walk the walk” when it comes to defining sustainability.

​​​​​​​Following over nine years’ service to Ruralco as Board Director and ATS Group Chairman, Alister Body has led the development and continued success of the 3,000 member strong co-operative through good times, structural change and challenges. Although it’s the right time to hang up his Chairman’s hat, Alister is far from taking his agricultural boots off.

For Ruralco member, keen lifelong hunter, and father of 10-year-old twins Hugo and Ralph, Tim Silva, gun safety has been a crucial part of his sons’ wider education.

Covid-19 pulled the plug on the global economy with one swift yank earlier this year, and only now governments and industry can begin to assess what remains, and what new opportunities exist in the strange new world the virus has left us with.

Learning to manage and match their farm’s nitrogen demand to its inputs has gone a long way to explaining how Ruralco director Tony Coltman and his wife Dana Carver claimed the supreme award in this year’s Canterbury Farm Environment Awards.

Hekeao Hemp Co. came to life on a sunny day in September last year when two friends loaded hay into a float and talked about the exciting opportunity to provide an alternative in equine nutrition – something they are both passionate about.